Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) could be used to recover low-grade waste heat. When a vehicle is running, the engine exhaust gas states have a wide range of variance. Defining the operational conditions of the ORC that achieve the maximum utilization of waste heat is important. In this paper the...

An organic Rankine cycle (ORC) can be used to harness the wasted heat from an internal combustion engine. In this paper, the characteristics of a novel system combining a gasoline engine with a dual loop ORC which recovers the waste heat from both the exhaust and coolant systems is analyzed. A...